This Maamar is a Hemshech (continuation) from the Basi Ligani. The Rebbe explained that in ch. 16 of the Frierdike Rebbe’s Basi Ligani the two ideas of Ohr Ein Sof Limmala Ad Ein Ketz and Limata Ad Ein Tachlis are in the same light. This Shiur begins by completing what was left uncompleted in the Basi Ligani Maamar, reading a part of that Maamar inside. The class then continues with this Maamar demonstrating that these two opposing concepts as they are joined can be illustrated using the Baal Shem Tov and the Mezritcher Maggid as an example. The Baal Shem Tov was altogether removed from the world’s constraints yet was entirely manifest in the world and to the simplest of people. The Maggid supposedly taught an intellectual chassidus that is grounded in reason, yet it was only in nekudos (points) only. They are the atik and Arich (or: the Keser) of the Chassidic hishtalshelus.
